Genpei Akasegawa
Genpei Akasegawa ( Japanese 赤 瀬 川 原 平 , Akasegawa Genpei , actually: Katsuhiko Akasegawa , 赤 瀬 川 克 彦 , Akasegawa Katsuhiko ; born March 27, 1937 in Yokohama ; † October 26, 2014 in the city of Machida , Tokyo ) was a Japanese avant-garde artist and writer.
Life
Akasegawa attended the Asahigaoka High School in Nagoya from 1952 to 1954 and studied at the Musashino Art School in Tokyo from 1955 to 1975 . The avant-garde artist joined the Neo-Dada movement around Ushio Shinohara , Shūsaku Arakawa and Masanobu Yoshimura . He invited to his first solo exhibition with enlarged replicas of 1000 yen notes, which earned him a charge of counterfeiting. The incident became known internationally as the Thousand-Yen Bill Incident .
With Jiro Takamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakamishi , he founded the Hi Red Center in 1963 , in which the group organized artistic happenings . From 1970 he taught at the Bigakko Art School . At the same time, he began publishing a series of satirical mangas in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper .
From 1979 Akasegawa published novels under the writer name Katsuhiko Otsuji ( 尾 辻 克 彦 , Otsuji Katsuhiko ). He received the Chūōkōron Young Talent Prize for Hadazawari and was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Chichi ga kieta in 1980 and the Noma Literature Prize for Yukinohara in 1983 . He received the special prize of the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1999 for Rōjiroku .
In 1986 he founded the Rojo Kansatsu Gakkai (Roadway Observation Society) with the architect Terunobu Fujimori , the illustrator Shinbo Minami , the writer Joji Hayashi and the editor Tetsuo Matsuda . In 1989 he worked on the script for Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Rikyu , which earned them both a nomination for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Web links
- Literature by and about Genpei Akasegawa in the catalog of the German National Library
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- Genpei Akasegawa in Google Arts & Culture
- SCAI The Bathhouse - Genpei Akasegawa
- Maga Updates - Mangaka - Akasegawa Genpei
- DNP Museum Information - On Terunobu Fujimori
- Reiko Tomii: "Akasegawa Genpei as a Populist Avant-Garde" (PDF; 3.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 赤 瀬 川 原 平 さ ん 死去 ＝ 前衛 芸 術 の 旗手 ・ 芥 川 賞 作家 －７７ 歳 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . October 27, 2014, Retrieved October 28, 2014 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akasegawa, Genpei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 赤 瀬 川 原 平 (Japanese); Otsuji, Katsuhiko (novel pseudonym); 尾 辻 克 彦 (Japanese, novel pseudonym); Akasegawa, Katsuhiko (real name); 赤 瀬 川 克 彦 (Japanese, real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese avant-garde artist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2014 |
| Place of death | Machida , Tokyo Prefecture |